Butera28

"This was the last residence of Sicily’s most celebrated author, Prince Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. His ancestral home on Via Butera, overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea, is completely bewitching. Its romantic and wild garden beckons with lemon trees, jasmine, wild roses and a fountain pond (now home to turtles, including Lighea, named after a mermaid in a short story of Lampedusa’s). Here, the rhythm of a more elegant era is conjured by its current owners, Gioacchino and Nicoletta Lanza Tomasi, Duke and Duchess of Palma, who run a charmed B&B occupying various floors of the historic Palazzo Lanza Tomasi, where the antique-filled bedrooms have high ceilings and parquet floors, and some come with their own terraces."